-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Leo,
On 11/8/13, 12:18 PM, Leo Donahue - OETX wrote: > Tomcat 7.0.47 > > Reading over the security benchmark I posted a link to earlier, > there is one that suggests to separate out the web content > directory from the Tomcat system files. Reading the Tomcat docs > for appBase, I see I can set this value. > > Reading further down in the Tomcat docs for Host, other questions > have spawned... and I blame it on being Friday. > > 1. When/Why would I change the xmlBase directory location? For > the same reasons I would change the appBase directory? > > 2. What is the benefit of un-packing WAR files? a. If you drop a > WAR file into your webapps directory (appBase I guess), and it > unpacks, should you leave the WAR file there or remove it? > > 3. WAR files located outside of the Host's appBase will not be > expanded... a. Why would I deploy WAR files outside of the Host's > appBase? b. Where are those deployed? By specifying the docBase? > > 4. What is the difference exactly between appBase and docBase? appBase is where webapps for a host generally live. You'll find WAR files and expanded-WAR directories that will be deployed as contexts. You can disable autoDeploy and deployOnStartup and then basically appBase is no longer relevant (unless you just want to continue to use it in that capacity, but use e.g. the Manager webapp to deploy everything). You specify appBase in a <Host> element in server.xml. docBase is the root of a specific webapp. Unless you put your WAR/exploded-WAR-dir outside of Tomcat's autoDeploy directory (that is, appBase), you generally don't have to specify this. You specify docBase in a <Context> element in those places where <Context>s are expected. > If the Context is specified in server.xml, I can have an appBase > and a docBase? The context only has a docBase. appBase has no meaning for a single context. > I know docBase has to be set outside of the Host's appBase, but why > would I have two locations for WAR files? You might not want to auto-deploy. Or you may want to host Tomcat on one disk but your webapp on another. There are lots reasons to put WAR files in places other than the appBase but under normal circumstances, you just drop your WAR file into the <Host>'s appBase and and call it a day. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJSfV2xAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYztAP+wVWnKqn4FhpZUUzZdiNCu55 nhUAuc1yylOKamm/1N0gBNRow1aCupANEqhqbeufGeY2ocKkIdQB+32U4Cy18Brc KBNFzh1fS7KA145rT/3OXeSp/zn+HvGpUupqF0PA7DM5C7PtJF5L7ae4J7gF8tqH MJlfZM+WMTkd/MnAoxrJSyvicS81V5K0eGPqBwOljSRQu4uMhEeDlqLXdG2/IKrc ajljTcKAyc9fOxU5Rv3HBmv5pp+IxPLWj4uA8Jq6Iegbsc65arFtabH47gezcV9R gt+lxmZjdJIUJvDnV9092gyh2HJwU/ErS6X5tRLX+rnTdpCLxcpveywGlicdMEaj 2Lc2/SHoWleW2ufXNlK63u7P7WmFBGqGqqRuUa2QXEzCVd9DL+qd4phmzQeSfb9g /Mz42klo0A04y224DEq0nekfZtGsXIAw4f+dtSXAp2HVtGG0oQnn3SPfKesWBBaz LPhQjcBeliZk4Hr/5UC4KcU/F/ToonP9VFofmPe9lJ61u0gjXfo0TXN8VPWUYYp5 vZV6QrQgXyFaRfB2BXxArHpdNsczqCyA3aXVO9i5hj3b3QWpSsc4htf2Lsj1W/wm VpC1A09tCsTN17IxY07+/ZDxNzQYuZjfOZoZVB2n+Y743zAw6hizvDCls7+AYSgR vU6P3iS+B0jMzp5I+BnG =5b7t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
